BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office has taken over the investigation into a bloody hostage taking in the western city of Cologne amid concerns that it was connected to Islamic extremism.

The office, which handles terrorism and national security cases in Germany, said ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military installations or other federal properties to open the way for more U.S. fossil fuel exports to Asia in the name of national security and despite opposition from coastal states.

The proposal was ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration considering the use of military bases or other federal facilities to export fossil fuels (all times local):

1:45 p.m.

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee says the Trump administration’s idea to use military bases or other ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former deputy national security adviser Dina Powell told the White House on Thursday that she’s not interested in serving as the next U.N. ambassador, a person familiar with the conversation told The Associated Press.

President Donald Trump had said the Goldman Sachs ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (all times local):

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President Donald Trump is praising outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, saying her departure announcement “was very elegantly done.”

Trump tells reporters as he ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest shake-up for President Donald Trump’s turbulent administration, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley abruptly announced she is resigning at the end of the year, raising questions about who will fill the key national security post and about the outspoken diplomat’s own ...

Notable firings and resignations from President Donald Trump’s White House since he took office on Jan. 20, 2017.

—Oct. 9: Trump announces U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s resignation, effective at end of the year.

—Aug. 29: Trump announces that White House counsel Don McGahn would ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Notable firings and resignations from President Donald Trump’s White House since he took office on Jan. 20, 2017.

—Oct. 9: Trump announces U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s resignation, effective at end of the year.

—Aug. 29: Trump announces that White House Counsel Don ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susan Rice, who was President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, said Sunday she’ll decide after next month’s midterm elections whether to run for the Senate from Maine in 2020 and try to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Collins cast a deciding vote to confirm ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Thursday unveiled the administration’s long-awaited counterterrorism strategy, delivering it with harsh words for Iran.

Calling Iran the “world’s central banker of international terrorism,” Bolton said the strategy ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and his top national security aides lashed out at Iran with unusual venom Tuesday, warning Tehran that it faced severe consequences if it defied the United States.

Speeches by the president before the U.N. General Assembly and by Secretary of State ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the United States and Iran (all times local):

2:35 p.m.

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton will warn Iran of “hell to pay” and “serious consequences” if it defies the U.S.

Bolton was to deliver a speech Tuesday in New York featuring ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Authorities in Hong Kong on Monday took an unprecedented step to quash separatist voices by banning a political party that advocates independence for the southern Chinese territory on national security grounds.

John Lee, the territory’s secretary for security, announced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Mueller has been busy.

In just the last two weeks, the special counsel has secured the cooperation of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, dispensed with the case of the campaign aide who triggered the Russia probe and signaled he’s squeezed all the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections, acting amid criticism that he has not taken election security seriously enough.

“We felt it was important to demonstrate the president has ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those committing acts of violence.

In a speech ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. stance against the International Criminal Court (all times local):

7:45 a.m.

The International Criminal Court says it will continue to do its work “undeterred,” despite National security adviser John Bolton’s condemnation.

Bolton ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt on Monday as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump declared the U.S. Justice Department should investigate and unmask the author of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece purportedly written by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart his most dangerous ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday that the Justice Department should investigate and unmask the author of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece purportedly written by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart his most dangerous ...

LONDON (AP) — Coup attempts, cyberwarfare, assassination bids — Western officials say the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, poses a growing menace around the world.

Increasingly alarmed by the agency’s foreign forays, Western nations are scrambling to protect themselves and to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on an anonymous New York Times opinion piece claiming there’s a “resistance” working within President Donald Trump’s administration (all times local):

10 p.m.

President Donald Trump says The New York Times’ decision to publish an op-ed from an anonymous ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants stepped forward Thursday to declare, “Not me.”

They lined up to deny writing an incendiary New York Times opinion piece that was purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a striking anonymous broadside, a senior Trump administration official wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times on Wednesday claiming to be part of a group of people “working diligently from within” to impede President Donald Trump’s “worst inclinations” and ...

GENEVA (AP) — Threatened U.S. funding cuts wouldn’t be “fatal” for his office, the United Nations’ human rights chief said Wednesday, but he added that he hoped other countries won’t follow suit.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein insisted “the office will continue to survive” even if the U.S. carries ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The trial of an Australian filmmaker accused of endangering Cambodia’s national security concluded Wednesday with the prosecution insisting that he had engaged in journalism in order to carry out spying.

Jamese Ricketson was arrested in June last year for flying ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An Australian filmmaker charged with endangering Cambodia’s national security told a judge Tuesday that his relationship with the now-disbanded opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party was purely professional.

James Ricketson, 69, was arrested in June last year ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States on Tuesday defended its re-imposition of sanctions against Iran as a legal and justified national security measure that cannot be challenged by Tehran at the United Nations’ highest court.

U.S. State Department legal advisor Jennifer Newstead ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has frequently supported giving the U.S. government wide latitude in the name of national security, including the secret collection of personal data from Americans.

It’s a subject Democrats plan to grill Kavanaugh about during his ...

Some of the questions and answers from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s 2006 confirmation hearings for federal appeals court judge, when some Democrats now say he gave misleading answers:

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.: “Did you have anything to do with the questions relating to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan president Asharf Ghani accepted the resignation Saturday of the country’s national security adviser, Mohammed Haneef Atmar, and replaced him with Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Hamdullah Mohib, according to government officials.

A statement from the ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia has viewed some of the footage shot by an Australian filmmaker charged with endangering national security for flying a drone over an opposition party rally last year.

The judge in the case of James Ricketson announced Friday that his trial ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former government contractor sentenced to more than five years in prison for mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization has received what prosecutors are calling the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the media.

Reality ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on a woman accused of leaking a classified report on Russian hacking (all times local):

10:55 a.m.

A Georgia woman who pleaded guilty to leaking a secret U.S. report has been sentenced to more than five years.

Reality Winner was sentenced Thursday ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors, who called it the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime ...

GENEVA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Thursday he pressed top Russian officials about meddling in the U.S. election process, while saying Russians will face no new U.S. sanctions if they stop such interference.

John Bolton spoke to The Associated Press in an ...